Moodle 2.9 Top 5 New Features for Admins

Moodle 2.9 was release earlier this week. Here are my top five new improvements for administrators

Allow backup and restore on the front page  http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-31500 Backup report again links to the individual course backup summaries  http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-30937 Assign global roles using CSV upload http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-15187 CLI version of admin/replace.php http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-25763 Configure temporary file deletion, to avoid moodledata/temp/backup filling up the filesystem https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-32547